From Entertainment to Citizenship
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780719085383
Description: It explores how young people connect the pleasures of popular culture to the world at large. For them, popular culture is not simply a matter of escapism and entertainment, but of engagement too. The place of popular culture in politics, and its contribution to democratic life, has too often been misrepresented or misunderstood.